*Hey guys! It's time for another chapter of… The Real Pirates of the Grand Line, but lately, I've been running really, really, low on ideas. For my loved and loyal readers, please give me any ideas at all good or bad, or this story's going to crash and burn. Any ideas are accepted thanks! Oh! And thanks again for reading, because personally this is my best chapter so far… Enjoy!*
***
The marines fired shot after shot, at Henry and the handcuffed Toby. Henry dove and weaved through the barrage of bullets; one hit Henry in the leg, another in the arm, making him almost drop Toby back into the hands of the marines.
Struggling with keeping himself and Toby unhurt as well as he could, Henry eventually landed onto the second floor, out of the marine's range. "Everyone follow them!" John yelled to the marines, as he began running to the stairs himself and tearing his twin pistols from their holsters.
"Hey! Get these off of me!" Toby yelled to Henry, referring to his handcuffs.
Henry grabbed Toby's handcuffs and pulled. The chain's holding them, broke after a few seconds of pulling. "Go get Mary and Grace; we can't stay here any longer." Henry said, standing up, and pulling the bullet out of his arm, and then his leg.
"Hey! We can take them! I'm not leaving this place just because of a bunch of stupid marines barged in the door!" Toby looked up and saw the seriousness in Henry's face. "Alright… I'll whistle you when I get everyone."
Toby ran off, down the hallway, and turned a corner out of sight. Henry glanced after him, and then back at the noise the marine's made getting to the top of the staircase. When he saw the first marine come to the second floor, he dove forward and tackled the first marine, who came up to the second floor.
Quickly, he tossed the marine over the balcony and turned to face a second marine. The marine brought out a rifle, aiming it at his head, "Sleep tight kid…" The marine said, pulling the trigger. Henry's reflexes ripped his head out of the way, so that the bullet grazed his forehead, drawing blood.
He kicked the rifle out of the marine's hand, and Henry's other leg kicked the marine off of the balcony railing. Though to be expected, the red-haired marine captain, John Rackham had already come to the second floor. Rackham pulled his arm back, clenched his fists and fired a punch, like a bullet knocking Henry into the balcony railing. Henry seeing more marines arrive at the second floor, dove past Rackham, and kicked the marine at the head into the others, making them all fall like dominoes back to the ground floor.
"Just you and me kid," Rackham said. He aimed one of his twin pistols at Henry, who ducked out of the line of fire. Henry aimed a punch at Rackham's face, but before his punch connected, he heard a high pitched whistle, and both the marine and the pirate stopped moving for an instant.
"We'll have to finish this later," Henry said, forcing a smile. He sped down the hallway, with Rackham's bullets after him. Henry turned a corner, and saw Toby, holding onto Grace, and Mary, swords unsheathed standing in front of the two.
When the group saw Henry, Mary's grip on her swords noticeably tightened. "You damn Pirate! Why did you ever have to show up anyway? Everything was going perfectly until we met you!" She yelled to Henry.
He seemed to ignore her comments and grabbed the three of them. Holding onto the group tightly he dove out of the nearest window, and landed hard onto the ground. "I'm sorry guys… I'm not fit to be a captain if I almost get my crew killed like this…" A tear rolled down Henry's cheek. "But right now, we have to go! Follow me!"
Henry began to run, but stopped and turned and gave a look of surprise, when no one was following him. They're not going to follow me… are they He thought. Henry hung his head and spread his wings to fly away, when a hand grabbed onto his.
"Come on Big Bro, we're all going to get away together." Grace said smiling, looking up at Henry.
"Grace get back here! If we go with him, we'll end up getting killed!" Mary screamed, fuming with anger.
Toby stood up and walked over to Henry. He turned to Mary, and said, "Sis, even if we will die going with him, we'll live the rest of our lives in prison anyway if we stay. Would you rather live your life in a cage or would you want to live and die free, as a pirate?"
Mary fell to her knees on the ground. "I can't… I just need time to think…" she said.
"Alright… Grace, Toby, let's go." Henry said, still looking at Mary.
The trio ran to the brick fence that encircled the estate, Toby and Grace glanced back to see Mary, who hadn't moved. "I'm sorry Sis…" they both whispered, climbing over the fence.
Toby led the way, until the group made it into back into the main area of Loguetown, where Henry took over. Grace pointed out a group of marines who looked like they were searching for something, or someone. "Stay close," Henry said, leading Toby and Grace into a building.
"Oh Henry what are you doing here?" said a heavy-set woman standing behind a counter.
"I'm sorry Mrs. Belmont, but we have to get out of here the back way," Henry said, dodging someone carrying a tray of bottles and glasses. Henry opened a door behind the counter, waving Toby and Grace back outside.
When Henry followed Grace and Toby outside, they stood inside an alleyway, with two drunken marines sitting down by a trash can, "You know… we…we should get out of here… we're not making any good money off this…" one marine said.
"You're right man… let's just… let's just take a ship and go… see the world…" said the other.
"Ignore them," Henry told Grace and Toby, "Just run and don't stop."
Henry led them through a maze of streets until the group came out seeing a road with a straight shot to the docks, and the sea. As the trio started running even faster than before, a group of marines suddenly appeared out of the buildings that lay on the edges of the street.
"Move," Henry said menacingly, grabbing onto his two companions.
"Don't make us laugh." One marine said who stood at the head of the group, "What can you possibly do?"
An arrow unexpectedly hit the marine in the arm, making him gasp in pain. While the marines turned, surprised to see their leader struck by an arrow, Henry looked at where the arrow was fired from and saw Toby reloading a crossbow. "Where did you get that?" He asked surprised.
"I hid it under my shirt, when I got Grace and Mary from the mansion."
"Well it helps a lot, thanks." Henry forced another smile. "Now move! All of you or you'll all get a taste of my friend's crossbow!" Henry yelled to the marines.
Every marine put on a fearful look and stepped aside, opening a path for the trio. Henry, Grace, and Toby all ran through to the docks, "So what do we do now?" Toby asked.
"Well first we need to find a ship and then…"
"Hey guys over here!" a voice yelled to them. Everyone turned and saw someone waving to them from an anchored skiff. "Hurry up already!"
The group ran to the skiff, and onboard was Mary Read. "Mary, but I thought that you…" Henry started to say.
"Well I changed my mind now get aboard, and let's sail…Captain!"
